Cobra Kai Guy
By Anon_Buster on September 5, 2020 5:48 pm
Last week, well From Friday night into Saturday afternoon, I watched two seasons of Cobra Kai on Netflix. I'm not proud of what I did--for shame--but I was inspired to work on guitar work in a different light. This weeks' track is inspired by Hawk, who is a wimp turned bada$$ without remorse for his selfish and damaging actions. I made a brief theme song inspired by his character.
Everything is a first take, but luckily it is simple guitar work, so I'm not tooooooo cringed out by the results. Guitars are hard panned L and R, with the Right channel being an exact copy of the original track with a 0.02ms delay, polarity flip, and minor processing to remove the weird reverb/delay sound created by cheating with a direct copy of the recording. So I cheated by not doubletracking. Bah. Whatevs.
Mixing acoustic drums was a pain and a half. I enjoy Trivium's music, so looked up their producer. Josh Wilbur is the one who came up first, so I looked into him, and luckily he has a Toontrack's series where he shows you how he mixes Trivium and Lamb of God using Superior Drummer. Taking some of his lessons, I tried to apply it to this track. I can't get the drums loud enough and mix clear/full like the LoG and Trivium albums, but this was my best shot at getting close. (Using a transient enhancer, then a tape saturator to tame the transients was a huge help in leveling the kick and snare. Weird technique from Wilbur, but it make sense in practice).
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